CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Warren Cup, Hetaira, Blackboard
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Sex and gender in the ancient world (in classical athens!!!!!!!!) Penis as a symbol has a religious function. Fresco of priapus (in the house of the vettii) - symbolizes fertility. Prayer to a deity, to get husband"s penis erect (inscriptional hymn to priapus) Biggest advantage of my dick is that no woman can be too wide for me (carmina. 79 ad, mount asubias erupted, and the lava came down on pompae, preserving everything. Image of mercury at the entrance to a bakery: big penis means rich, good, wealthy. Anything dirty would be left in latin, never translated into english because women and children can be harmed. Idea is that the only person who could bare that literature is the educated male. Roman tintinnabula: a wind chime, a representation of priapus(penis is a beast where he is fighting with it. Pan, deity that inspires panic in people (pan and she-goat) All men and woman are fallas* made of obscene jokes.
